Researchers don’t know enough about spider silk structure and composition to understand ... “That could be evidence that silks are layered.” To further explore protein layering, the team treated the ...

Other molecular constituents found in spider silk, such as glycoproteins ... for this phase transition. “These proteins naturally possess a hierarchical structure achieved through self-assembly ...

“This paper is based on a very interesting idea,” says University of Manitoba molecular ... domain of spider silk protein . . . improved the stability of p53 without affecting its biological function.

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in ... the researchers designed a microfluidic device to replicate the chemical and physical gradients present in the spider.

Narrator: This is Randy Lewis, a molecular biologist at Utah State ... Lewis: In terms of the spider silk protein, we've got to find a cheap way to make it. Narrator: Randy and his team took ...

Inspired by the natural wonder of spider silk ... peptides acted as a kind of molecular scaffolding, helping the artificial ...

He says that the secret to spider silk's strength is its structure. Real spider silk has ... of these little nanocrystals that are the proteins spiders use, he might be using carbon nanotubes ...

If fluorescent green silk becomes the next ... the production of many useful proteins," says Mori. For example, replacing the silkworm fibroin gene with the spider gene spidroin could produce ...

To meet the high metabolic demands of daily silk production, at least some spiders have developed a way to reuse their silk. Certain orb web-weaving spiders recycle their web proteins despite the fact ...